Job opportunities

The graduates in Geomatics and Topography Engineering are professionals able to:

• design and develop geomatic and topographic projects.
• plan, design, and manage measurement processes, systems of information, positioning and navigation.
• model and depict territorial information.
• plan, design and manage processes and products of application in civil engineering and building.
• plan, design and manage processes and products of application in the field of the environmental, agronomic, forestry and mining engineering.
• plan, design and manage processes and products of application in town planning in the field of geomatics.
• take over the leadership and manage interdisciplinary teams related to spatial information.

This degree in Geomatics and Topography Engineering opens the door to work in companies involved in cartography and its applications; in the building sector graduates execute and control works; in consultancy they carry out projects to implement systems of geographic information (SIG), and photogrammetry and remote sensing projects. In addition, graduates can work supervising official cartographies, in urbanism, registry office, environment, and public works in the Public Administrations.

Once students finish the degree in Geomatics and Topography Engineering, post-graduate courses are available to complement their studies. Pick and choose a professional master or, if you prefer the research field, the university master in research (MUI), particularly MUI in engineering and architecture taught at the University Centre of Mérida.

The last survey conducted by the Official College of Technical Engineers in Topography and graduates in Geomatics and Topography Engineering carried out in 2008 reveals the following results regarding the employment situation of these professionals: a high percentage, around 60 % of the people interviewed work as employees in any private sector company; 16% are working for the Public Administrations; 12% are freelance having employees in charge, 10% are freelance with no employees, and 2% are unemployed.

The aforementioned data demonstrates the broad integration of these graduates into the market and society, and so the need to keep on nurturing these professionals is essential. However, the present economic situation makes us look for new job occupations and reflect thoughtfully on the graduates’ future. In this sense, the Official College of Technical Engineers in Topography and, graduates in Geomatics and Topography Engineering held a conference in January 2012 in which 125 national and international experts discussed the professional future of these specialists in Europe and Spain   regarding the management of the territory and the physical description of the property.

Among the most outstanding conclusions we can highlight the enhancement of the professional profile of the graduates in Geomatics and Topography Engineering, and the technical engineers in Topography, who have consolidated and broadened horizons of professional competences, to be on a level with European countries, such as Switzerland, world landmark in the territorial representation through maps and the structure of property management, where the association of PARLS (Publicly Appointed and Regulated Liberal Surveyors) is considered a key in the development of the country.